My hopes were never brighter than now.
FREDERICK DOUGLASSThere is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution.
More Frederick Douglass Quotes
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Intelligence is a great leveler here as elsewhere.
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To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.
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At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
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Some know the value of education by having it. I knew its value by not having it.
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Freedom now appeared, to disappear no more forever.
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I know of no rights of race superior to the rights of humanity.
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Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!
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What is possible for me is possible for you.
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Every one of us should be ashamed to be free while his brother is a slave.
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.
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A slave is someone who sits down, and waits for someone to free them.
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